Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-01-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c., Jaa. 10, 1887.

Special Correspondence OF Inc AieAa. NAHEAlr-
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Jaa. 10, 1887.
This was the day in the House for tbs
call of States for bills. Those introduced by
the Virginia members were the following
By Mr.. Barbour 10 allow the Potomac and
Anacostia Railroad Company to run then
road by cable; by Mr.. Cabell :oi the rellei
of II. II. Palmer, of Carroll county, Va, by
Mr.. Libby for the relief OF Peter Dyastas;
for a nension to the widow Of I. H. Ryder,
an employee az the Norfolk navy yard, who
was killed at fire there in April, 1885, and
one sppronriating So, 900 for the purchase Of
the Nelson House at Yorktown to be used
as the lodge of the keeper OF the Yorktown
Monument The house referred 10 Is sup
nosed to have been built about l715 by
Thomas Nelson, the grand father of Thomas
Nelson, jr, signer of the Declaration OF
Independence, war Governor OF Virginia,
and q general in the army during the revo'
lutionary war. At the siege of Yorktown
this house was the headquarters OF the
British officers. Then it was that General
Nelson ordered his gunners TO fire nit, and
tradition saws he gave the gunners guinea
for every shot they fred. The great grand
daughter OF General Nelson makes an APP
peal to Congress to purchase the Nelson
House, as il can be used for a iaudaoie gov
eminent purpoSa-a home FOR the Superin'
tendent of the Yorktown Monument. Dur
ing the late war the Union army used the
house as a hospital, so it has sheltered many
Union soldier.
Representatives Barbour, of Virginia, and
Compton, of Maryland, have impressed up
on the member OF the House appropria-
lions committee who has the preparation OF
the District appropriation bill in charge the
urgent necessity for an appropriation for
an ice boat on the Potomac, and made that
necessity so plain to him that he will do all
he can to have such an appropriation pro
yide0 for in the bill. Ex-postmaster Wind
sor. of Alexandria, will see Senator Malone
on the same matter to-day. Should the
provision be made, the citizens Of Washing
ton will not have either their newspapers
nor their commissioners to thank for it,
The fact that Representative Anderson,
republican, of Kansas, who, though low
tariff man, voted against the consideration
of the Morrison bill, because he thought 1t
would be useless waste of tiule says that
Mr.. Randall's proposed bill to reduce the
internal revenue tax will not have the sup
port of enough republicans to pass it, is sig
nificant, and tends to substantiate the belief
of Messrs. Carlisle and Reed that nothing
will be done with either the tariff or the in
Among the bills introduced in the House
to-day was one appropriatng not more than
five million dollars for the purchase of all
the lots on the South side of Pennsyl-
vania avenue, and for the erection thereon
of city postoffice and all the other build
;ngs that the Government may require.
la the Senate to-day the resolution for
celebrating the one hundredth anniversary
of the adoption of the Constitution of the
United States, on the S0th ofApril, 1889, and
the Jour hundredth anniversary of the dis
covery of America, was reported favorabiy
A bill was introduced to permit the Anacos-
tia and Potomac Railroad company to run
their road by cable instead Of horses. At
an early hour the Senate resumed the con-
siderAtion OF the interstate commerce bill,
Mr.. Beck leading off
Among the petitions offered in the Sena:e to-
day was one by Mr.. German for light house at
Maryland Point. 1t was signed by Thomas Ross,